What Cigar Are You Smoking? 2025

[tubbyninja1337]

On today's menu is Illusione's Epernay with a nice black coffee to sip. This is one of my absolute favorite morning cigars to pair with coffee ️ creamy, nutty, with some light cedar, overall mild and well behaved imo.



On a side note, I'm going to try my hand at making some pipe mud for a new estate pipe i picked up from ebay. Noticed a little chip in the bowl unfortunately. I've read a few posts and it doesn't seem too difficult.

 

[dottlejockey]

Started off my day out picking up firewood with a stogie and coffee. Manduley, Ybor City.

 

[cshubhra]

Oliva Serie V Melanio

 

[BenMN]

Exquisito for Fuente Friday

 

[Speak Easy]

Exquisito to finish off Fuente Friday for me

 

[Pooh-Bah]

Leatherneck, which I suspect is another Davidus stick since a search on the Internet for "Leatherneck Cigar" only brings me to Davidus and the USMC.

Initially I got similar notes to root beer, then generic darker cigar flavor. Now that it's in my ghosted pipe, mingling with the specters of War Horse and Deertongue, I'm getting a similar flavor and creaminess to Dragon Well tea (which a friend once brought me back a tin of as a souvenir from a science conference in the PRC).

 

[BenMN]

I picked up two CAO Amazon Basin today from the latest release. This one is from a 2016 box I have smoked through. I'm going to smoke a new one tomorrow.

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I've only had last year's release, which were pretty good. But I've heard the originals (2016?) were the best. I'll be interested to hear your thoughts on the comparison

 

[BenMN]

Don Carlos No.4 natural to get Fuente Friday started. Have a great day, y’all!View attachment 364073

This reminded me that I have a few No.4s, so I thought I would bookend Fuente Friday the same way you got it started.

Unfortunately, I missed the sunset, which was magnificent, by a few minutes


7 months in the box hasn't changed these much, maybe smoothed out a bit. But one thing I like about these and the Gran Reserva greens is that they seem pretty good right off the shelf

 

[Rockyrepose]

2025 Anazon Basin

 

[BenMN]

Re: Fuente Friday, it may be of interest that Halfwheel recently awarded Fuente 2024 company of the year

2024 Awards: Company of the Year

Each year, we recognize a company whose success stood out to us as writers. This year, the winner was unanimous.

halfwheel.com

I haven't been paying attention long enough to comment on the claim that Fuente is, right now, "at its very peak." What I can say is that I find them consistently good, and have more Fuentes in my boxes than any other brand, by far

 

[cshubhra]

H Upmann 1844 Anejo